Cute Barristas at Peet's Coffee

From: Patrick Naughton <naughton@starwave.com>
Subject: Re: Why CAFEBABE?
Date: 1996/05/27 06:12:58 +0100
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Bill Venners wrote:
>
> The first 4 bytes of every Java class file has the magic value
> 0xCAFEBABE. I am curious. Does anyone know how this value was chosen?
> Does anyone who doesn't know want to venture a guess?
Strangely enough the magic number for .class files was chosen
long before the name Java was ever uttered in reference to
this language. We were looking for something fun, unique and
easy to remember. 0xcafebabe was better than the second runner-up,
0xdeadbabe. :-)
It is only a coincidence that the oblique reference to the
cute barristas at Peet's Coffee was foreshadowing for the name
Java.
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